MACH Superstudio Clustering

Identifying smaller cities in New Jersey for coastal climate adaptation

Author

Nissim Lebovits

Published

April 15, 2024

1 Summary

2 Introduction

3 Motivation

4 Context

5 Feature Selection and Engineering

5.1 Variable Selection

5.1.1 Total Population

5.1.2 Income

5.1.3 Population Change

5.1.4 Industrial Development

5.1.5 Residential Vacancy

5.1.6 Flood Risk

5.2 Exploratory Analysis

5.3 Selection and Engineering

6 Clustering

6.1 Cluster Number Selection

6.2 Clustering

7 Results

8 Discussion

8.1 Observations

8.1.1 Capacity Issues

8.2 Limitations

8.3 Next Steps

8.3.1 Final Suggested Sites

9 Recommendations